European folklore

If you visit George Washington’s Ferry Farm this December, you’ll be greeted by the sweet smell of spiced gingerbread as soon as you walk through the door! During our annual Gingerbread…

Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore and mythology, a female spirit of fresh water in a sacred spring or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent, fish, goat or bird from the waist down (much like a mermaid, lamia, harpy or satyress). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, horns, two tails, or both. In the time of the Crusades, Elynas, the King of Albany (an old name for Scotland or Alba), went hunting one day and came across a beautiful lady in the…

Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, f...

Kikimora is one of many Creatures from Eastern European Folklore

Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore and mythology, a female spirit of fresh water in a sacred spring or river, usually depicted as a woman ...

Rusalkoja (1877) Witold Pruszkowski

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